[Breitbart] Current and former employees of the Democrat fundraising machine, ActBlue, reportedly pleaded the Fifth more than 100 times while testifying before several House committees.
In a press release, it was revealed that the House Judiciary Committee, House Administration Committee, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report titled, “Fraud on ActBlue, Part II: Illicit Foreign Donations and a Cover-up Sour Mass Resignations and Firings on ActBlue’s Legal and Compliance Team.”
The press release revealed that the “five current or former employees at ActBlue who appeared for depositions all invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination during questioning – for a total of 146 times.”
“The Committees conducted five depositions with key ActBlue fraud-prevention and legal personnel to obtain more information about the fraud-prevention failures detailed in the Committees’ first report and the cover-up detailed here,” the report says. “The employees invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to every single one of the Committees’ substantive questions—146 times in total. Their unwillingness to testify only amplifies the Committees’ concerns.”
The 120-page report explains that the three House committees “are charged with ensuring the integrity of American elections,” adding that the committees “are examining allegations that ActBlue, a leading political fundraising organization, allowed bad actors, including foreign actors, to exploit its online platform to make fraudulent political donations.”
The report continues in part to explain:
On April 2, 2025, the Committees published a staff report detailing initial findings from our investigation into ActBlue’s fraud-prevention practices. Internal documents produced to the Committees by ActBlue and its fraud-prevention contractor, Sift, “reflect a fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention at ActBlue—one that has left the door open for large scale fraud campaigns on Democrats’ top fundraising platform.” The Committees’ oversight has found that ActBlue, in its own words, decided to take “a more lenient approach” to fraud prevention in 2024, weakening its fraud-prevention policies at least twice even though internal assessments showed that these changes would result in a measurable increase in fraudulent contributions. Similarly, internal trainings directed ActBlue’s fraud-prevention team to “look for reasons to accept contributions” rather than examine them closely for indicators of fraud—as required by federal regulation. ActBlue took this lax approach to fraud prevention even though it has detected at least 22 significant fraud campaigns on the platform in recent years, including several from foreign sources.
After the Committee’s investigation began, the New York Times reported that at least seven senior staff members, including ActBlue’s “highest-ranking legal officer,” resigned from or were fired by the platform in early 2025. The Times also reported that the last remaining lawyer on ActBlue’s legal team, Zain Ahmad, went “on leave” and had his access to internal systems revoked in late February 2025. Ahmad reportedly claimed that he had been retaliated against by ActBlue staff for blowing the whistle on internal misconduct. On April 2, 2025, the Committees requested documents and communications from ActBlue related to this staff turmoil and alleged retaliation. After ActBlue suspended its voluntary cooperation with the Committees’ oversight in June 2025, the Committees issued subpoenas for these documents and communications on July 22.
The report continues to share that “documents produced to the Committees’ subpoenas” show that employees from ActBlue’s legal and compliance team left the company after the 2024 presidential election. The employees reportedly knew of the platform’s “acceptance of illegal foreign contributions, and the subsequent cover-up.”
“By March 2025, every member of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team resigned, was fired, or went on extended leave,” the report says.
The New York Post reported that “an unidentified ActBlue senior workflow specialist managing fraud prevention,” and Alyssa Twomey, the former vice president of customer service, were issued subpoenas in June 2025.
Several other people, such as Darrin Hurwitz, who previously served as the general counsel for ActBlue, and Zain Ahmad, a former lawyer for ActBlue’s legal team, received “subpoenas in September 2025,” according to the outlet.
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They're used to doing 'little things' over and over again, so there's that.
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Pretty clear when current or former employees at ActBlue appear for depositions then all invoke their 5th Amendment right against self incrimination during questioning. Then to do it for a total of 146+ times.
Then add to the NYT defending it.
Well it speaks volumes as to their guilt.
BkGrd Info
ActBlue collected over $16 Billion in DNC directed donations.
With about 1/2 of that amount coming from NON-USA sources. Yes even IRAN, CCP, Russia and other Anti-USA sources.
So this mean many a DC / Fed Democrat actually ran their campaigns using $$$$$ from the enemies of the USA.
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Without getting into the boring details, taking the Fifth can help you in defending a criminal proceeding but can really screw you in defending a civil proceeding. And Texas has just filed a civil proceeding against Act Blue, here.
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What foreign actors? Hmmm? China? Ukraine? Mexican cartels? Inquiring minds want to know.
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WHICH foreign country? It doesn't say. If it's Laos or Botswana it's not a big deal. If the donors are properly registered as foreign agents under FARA then it's perfectly legal.
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[REGNUM] The story of former British Ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson, who visited the island of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, his security clearance, and subsequent resignation has escalated from a personnel incident into a full-scale crisis. Good. Vile people deserve to have problems.
The reason for this was new revelations: it turns out that Mandelson failed a security clearance test in January 2025, but this verdict was overturned by the Foreign Ministry.
The information became public in April 2026. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and current ministers claim they were unaware of the failed review. For a long time, they publicly reiterated that the appointment had followed "all due process" and complied with regulations.
But it's not just Mandelson; it's also a clash of two lines of responsibility. On the one hand, there's a system of vetting that's supposed to protect the state from personnel risks. On the other, the government announced the candidate in advance, effectively forcing the bureaucratic machine to choose: either block the appointment of the already named ambassador or find a way to circumvent the negative assessment. This conflict between officials and those responsible for security became the subject of a separate investigation.
The scandal didn't arise out of nowhere. Mandelson's appointment was initially accompanied by heavy reputational baggage due to his long-standing ties to Epstein, which were already known by the time of his nomination from previous publications and internal government documents.
In March 2026, it was reported that Starmer had already acknowledged the personnel decision was a mistake following the publication of documents highlighting the reputational risk associated with Mandelson. But even after this, the government's line of defense remained unchanged: the prime minister insisted that procedure had been followed.
With the public revelation of the fatal photograph of Mandelson in his underwear, the issue became completely toxic and humiliating for the authorities. Against this backdrop, Starmer continued to insist that everything had been done according to the rules. Therefore, Mandelson continued to be promoted.
Later, when it emerged that the security service had in fact recommended denying the candidate access, the earlier statements began to look either like a deliberate misleading of parliament or an admission that the prime minister had no control over his own decision-making system.
According to journalists confirmed by Downing Street, on January 28, 2025, the British Foreign Office rejected Mandelson's application after conducting a thorough background, financial, and personal check. However, within 48 hours, the Foreign Office decided to exercise an extremely rarely used right and ignore the recommendation. This allowed Mandelson to take up his post as ambassador to Washington in February.
The key problem is that by the time the vetting process failed, Starmer had already publicly announced his candidacy. In other words, the negative conclusion came not before the political decision, but after it, when a rejection would have meant a public failure for the prime minister.
The government later acknowledged that, while the agency formally had the right to disregard the recommendation of the state secrets clearance commission, the very existence of such a rule has now been called "staggering," and the mechanism's operation has been frozen.
The immediate victim of this was Sir Ollie Robbins, the Chief Secretary at the Foreign Office. Following a high-profile report in The Guardian in April, it became known that Starmer and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper had lost confidence in him, forcing Robbins to resign. For the government, this was a way to demonstrate that personal responsibility had indeed been taken.
But Robbins' dismissal also raised new questions: could someone in office for just a few weeks truly have made such a dangerous decision on their own? The opposition immediately began to speculate that Starmer was trying to make Robbins a scapegoat. The media began to argue that it was impossible to imagine such a sensitive step being taken without understanding the political consequences at the very top.
Even if the prime minister and ministers weren't formally notified, this only points to a systemic failure in the governance architecture itself. In any case, Starmer also came under fire, as the focus of the scandal quickly shifted from Mandelson to the credibility of the prime minister's statements.
Starmer himself stated that he was "furious" when he learned of the cover-up. But if the prime minister truly was unaware of a key fact that directly affected one of his government's most controversial personnel decisions, the situation is even worse: it represents a profound disconnect between the political center and the bureaucratic machinery.
If we assume that the information was actually disseminated more widely than the government admits, the government's misconduct moves from the level of administrative failure to the category of deliberate concealment.
Therefore, the situation has become extremely dangerous for the prime minister and could lead to his resignation.
In an attempt to contain the damage, the government launched two simultaneous responses. First, the right of individual departments to independently overturn the Official Secrets Committee's recommendations was immediately suspended. Second, Downing Street decided to commission an external review of the system.
Former Court of Appeal judge Adrian Fulford is set to head it. His choice is no accident: Fulford has previously worked on security clearance reviews and also enjoys politically neutral judicial status. The Mandelson scandal has highlighted a fundamental flaw in the governance model: the desire to force through a decision at any cost after its public announcement can lead to a distortion of government practices themselves.
In normal logic, vetting should precede appointment, especially when it comes to access to highly classified information and a position in Washington. In Mandelson's case, the opposite occurred: first the selection, then the vetting, then a bureaucratic maneuver that allowed the already announced line to be maintained.
The story isn't over yet. In the short term, the government attempted to contain the crisis by resigning Robbins and promising an independent review. But strategically, the question remains: can the prime minister maintain credibility if he either didn't tell parliament the whole truth or didn't know the truth about his own decisions?
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Mandelson didn't have enough clearance to participate in Russiagate. He probably didn’t have even enough clearance to get the highest quality perverted treatment from Epstein. He shall remain a fringe wanker.
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/\ He shall remain a fringe wanker.
'Fringed' then? Noun as a verb? Fringed lace wanker? Remove that one from your mind's eye.
[ZERO] Well before Mark Carney was elected as Canada's Prime Minister in the wake of numerous scandals surrounding Justin Trudeau, critics noted that the candidate represented a far greater threat to Canada's freedom largely because he is far more devious than Trudeau ever was.
Carney is a central banker and high level World Economic Forum globalist well acquainted with the liberal "Reset" agenda, and it is no mistake that he has taken control of Canada at a time when European elites are pushing for an economic and geopolitical separation from the US. The plan is obvious - To isolate the US in an effort to stop the spread of conservative and nationalist movements throughout the west.
In other words, the globalists/leftists are trying to build a new empire in a last-ditched scramble to prevent their liberal order from fading away. Carney pretends as if they are breaking from the old system and starting something new by "calling out" the US. In reality, it was the US that broke from the liberal system and refused to "go along to get along".
[TheFederalist] Breadcrumbs dropped last month by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, based on whistleblower reporting suggest FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina — a mainstay in the numerous get-Trump deep-state efforts — may have engaged not merely in misconduct, but potentially illegal activity.
In a March 15, 2026 letter to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, Grassley excerpted claims of misconduct allegedly undertaken by multiple members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team. The Iowa senator had obtained a copy of a FD-302 interview summary that detailed the allegations, including claims that the government improperly sought to renew a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) surveillance order on former Trump campaign advisor Walid Phares.
According to Grassley’s letter, the agent interviewed for the FD-302 was involved in the Crosswind investigation, which was a subpart of Crossfire Hurricane. The Crosswind investigation reportedly focused on whether Phares violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Phares told RealClearInvestigations that the CIA issued a report in 2016 containing false allegations that he had accepted "a $10 million bribe from the Egyptian government intended for the Trump campaign during a meeting in Cairo."
The FD-302 released last month details an FBI agent’s claim that a battle erupted in Special Counsel Mueller’s office concerning whether the team should seek a third renewal of the FISA warrant to surveil Phares. Then-FBI agent Andre Khoury said "No," adding, according to the FD-302, that "they were getting all of the information they needed from interviews with the target of the investigation who was cooperating and providing everything they needed." The FBI report continued by noting that Khoury said that FISA surveillance "would not give us anything more and there was nothing in the past FISA that aided the investigation other than to prove the Target was being honest with investigators."
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The political damage to the establishment of actually proving criminal behavior would be to great for them to allow it to happen. It will remain accusations and 'conspiracy theories' because that is safer.
[ZERO] The Department of Justice appears to be gaining fresh momentum in its criminal investigation into the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion narrative, with a significant overhaul of the team handling the case in southern Florida.
According to investigative journalist Julie Kelly’s reporting at Declassified.live, longtime Trump legal advisor Joe diGenova - a former U.S. Attorney and prominent commentator - will be sworn in Monday as counsel to the attorney general. He will assume leadership of the ongoing grand jury probe based in Fort Pierce, the district overseen by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. That same courthouse was the site of Cannon’s landmark July 2024 ruling dismissing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case against President Trump after she found Smith’s appointment unconstitutional. The grand jury has been active in Fort Pierce since January, Kelly reports.
DiGenova’s wife, Victoria Toensing, has also served as a key Trump legal counselor for years. In a notable earlier move, the Biden Justice Department seized Toensing’s cellphone in April 2021 during a separate inquiry tied to Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to examine the Biden family’s overseas dealings.
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Seems like a decade ago that Joe showed up on all the shows telling me that Durham was going to bring the hammer down. It was a squeaky air hammer stolen from a playpen.
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Wonder if Brennan will give up names to avoid jail. Given his age it likely be a life sentence.
The National Intelligence Council's (NIC) concerns were so extensive that officials personally briefed President Donald Trump at the White House in February 2020, according to photos obtained by Just the News showing top CIA, FBI and Homeland Security officials joining with NIC analysts to inform the president.
But the American public was never fully alerted, even after evidence emerged that China had gained access to voter registration data in multiple states and had even sent fake driver's licenses to the United States in a bid to help Joe Biden win the election, officials said.
[SDUT] She was only (D-Ore) brought on as a sop to big Unions. Adios, Puta!
Her purpose accomplished already? Nice.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the administration announced Monday, after a series of alleged abuses of her position’s power, including having an affair with a subordinate and drinking alcohol on the job.
Chavez-DeRemer is the third Trump Cabinet member to leave her post after Trump fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March and ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this month.
"Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector," White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement. "She has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices, and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their lives."
He said Keith Sonderling, the current deputy labor secretary, would become acting labor secretary in her place.
Chavez-DeRamer’s departure follows reports that began surfacing in January that she was under a series of investigations. The news outlet NOTUS was the first to report her resignation Monday.
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Hope that is the last of her. Unfortunately, She will fit right in with the batch of idiots running my State into the ground. How did she ever manage to get into a position of power in D.C.? One of the few, but obvious mistakes I have seen from Trump. Whoever talked him into using her for anything mare than a water girl should be fired!
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I would deride her performance if I was aware that she was on the cabinet at all. Heard she was a lefty. Somebody in the press will notice that he canned three women and will make stupid accusations and insinuations.
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[GatewayPundit] The House Ethics Committee on Monday confirmed it has reviewed 20 matters involving allegations of sexual misconduct by a member of Congress over the last decade.
“Over the last decade, the Committee has adopted a more aggressive and robust approach to allegations of sexual misconduct,” the committee said in a statement.
“Since 2017, the Committee has initiated investigations in 20 matters involving allegations of sexual misconduct by a Member. The Committee has also investigated several Members for their handling of allegations of sexual misconduct by their senior staff.”
The House Ethics Committee said it released its findings after a member of Congress engaged in sexual misconduct.
“Whenever the Committee found a Member to have engaged in or fostered an environment where sexual misconduct took place, the Committee released its findings,” it added.
“The Committee has taken the position that conduct that falls short of legal definitions of sexual harassment or assault under federal or state statutes can still be a violation of the Code of Official Conduct, which imposes a higher standard on Members of the House,” it said.
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...think of all the lobbyists who'd need to be employed across 50 states to cover them all rather than concentrated in that one hive of scum and villainy.
[The Federalist] Seemingly not content to just destroy her state’s rule of law and election system, Democrat Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has declared war on Virginia’s heritage and, more specifically, those who dedicate themselves to preserving it.
The newly minted governor signed a bill on Monday that revoked tax exemptions from several Confederate heritage organizations, including the state’s divisions of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). Spanberger also recently signed a bill that ceases the production of specialty license plates bearing the likeness of Robert E. Lee.
"Governor Spanberger’s signing of this bill is a proud moment and an important step forward for Virginia," state Delegate Alex Askew, who sponsored the bill and has campaigned for it for several years, stated. But the question is: A step forward toward what? A Virginia that hates its own history, that curses those men of the past who built the state and made it what it is today?
Spanberger’s signature represents, as The New York Times put it, part of "a yearslong Democrat-led push to shake off the state’s legacy as the capital of the 11 Southern, slaveholding states that seceded from the country in the 1860s."
And indeed it has been a years-long campaign by the left to erase Virginia’s, and America’s, history. The era that began with the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009 and reached its fever pitch during the fiery George Floyd riots of summer 2020 saw the slow but sure disappearance of Confederate history from the public sphere. Even some Republican politicians found a convenient scapegoat in long-revered Southern symbols.
During a BLM riot in Richmond, Virginia, in May 2020, extremist agitators attacked the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy with "incendiary devices." The building, deeded to the organization by the state in 1950, was filled with countless Civil War-era documents and artifacts. The resulting fire and destruction caused $4.1 million in damage to the building and its contents, according to a lawsuit filed by the UDC. The wanton vandalism that night also extended to the multiple Confederate monuments on Monument Avenue, including the famous equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee that was removed in 2021.
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The destruction of what we hold dear, a very obvious prelude to communism.
Historically, the destruction of cultural heritage has often been driven by political motives, especially in communist revolutions. As noted in studies of mass atrocities, such destruction can be linked to war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially when it serves to erase a people’s history and identity Getty. Communist regimes have sometimes used cultural erasure to consolidate power, remove competing ideologies, and create a unified, ideologically pure society.Much more at the link found here.
The current legal effort against members of the British Special Air Service (SAS) is yet another example of such cultural destruction.
Will the historic 'Washington and Lee University' be Spanberger's next target ?
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I used to live in Fredericksburg, VA. US Route 1 runs through the town, and is (was?) known as Jefferson Davis Highway. I wonder if that has changed.
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Washington & Lee University is my alma mater. The school's name has been under attack since the early woke/cancel days. I half-joked we would become known as '& University` after eliminating both of these controversial namesakes. We weathered the first storm (renaming Lee Chapel, relegating all Confederate history to the basement of said Chapel), but we always knew they'd be back for more.
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n July 2017, Spanberger announced her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in Virginia's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election against incumbent Republican Dave Brat, a former Tea Party movement member.
Today, the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) announced its endorsement of Rep. Abigail Spanberger for Governor of Virginia. This endorsement follows JDCA’s successful efforts to mobilize voters in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race earlier this month.
Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia, responded:
“At a time when we are seeing a rise in hate – and violence – directed at our Jewish neighbors across our Commonwealth and the United States, we must continue to stand with and defend Jewish communities to combat hatred and antisemitism in all forms. As governor, I will always work to ensure that Virginia is a place where all families can feel safe and thrive,” said Spanberger. “I’m grateful for the Jewish Democratic Council of America’s work to combat antisemitism, defend Virginians’ civil liberties, and protect our democracy. I am thankful to have their support to serve as the next Governor of Virginia.”
JDCA CEO Halie Soifer said the following:
“We are thrilled to endorse Abigail Spanberger to be the next Governor of Virginia. JDCA previously endorsed Congresswoman Spanberger three times in her House elections because she is a champion for the issues of importance to Jewish voters. As governor, she will stand up for working families, defend democracy, fight against antisemitism and extremism, and make Virginia safer for Jews and all Virginians. The Jewish vote can shape the outcome of this election, and we plan to mobilize voters to elect Rep. Spanberger this November.
“This race will be among the most important of 2025, and we see Americans increasingly rejecting Donald Trump and Republicans’ attacks on our democracy, freedoms, rights, and economic opportunities. From the next six months, JDCA will engage Jewish voters across Virginia in support of Abigail Spanberger to ensure she wins in November.” https://jewishdems.org/press_release/jewish-dems-endorse-rep-abigail-spanberger-for-va-governor/
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When I was growing up in Arlington in the late 50's there was a confederate soldier statue in Alexandria, on Rte 1, Jeff Davis Highway, that faced south to Richmond, and reminded everyone of the confederate past of the city and state. As soon as Biden and the progressives took office, the war on the Confederacy ignited in a wave of racial bigotry and smug virtue signaling. Those urges lie just beneath the surface of the socialists still...
"The bronze Confederate statue known as Appomattox was removed from the intersection of Prince and Washington Streets in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, on June 2, 2020. Erected in 1889 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), it depicted a bowed, unarmed soldier facing south and was removed due to its controversy and to prevent it from becoming a target for protesters.
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Lee should be remembered for what he did after the war. He set an example of 'its over' and get on with it, avoiding a protracted guerrilla war that it could have devolved into. The few that did west of the Mississippi devolved to common banditry.
[Brietbart] Dem Rep. Smith: I ’Worry’ Dems ’Moving Away’ from ’Fundamental Support for the United States’
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s "On Balance," House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that he is concerned about where Democrats are on foreign policy, "that we are moving away [from] fundamental support for the United States."
Smith said, "I think it is just one of the most dishonest things that perpetuates a war, if you’re not in favor of a war, you’re rooting for us to lose, and you’re rooting for the opposition, that is just a ridiculous argument. Are you in favor of a full-scale invasion of Iran to make the regime crack? I don’t think you are. Does that mean you don’t want America to win? Okay. ... So, second point, I do worry about where my party is at in foreign policy, that we are moving away [from] fundamental support for the United States. But Donald Trump doesn’t help when he comes out and says, what is the United States of America about? We want to completely erase the Iranian civilization, we don’t care how many civilians we kill, we have the secretary of defense saying, give them no quarter, which means no survivors. Basically, it’s making the United States of America into, basically, a predatory entity. I want to balance those two things. I don’t want my party to wind up too far over there."
Smith also stated that Democrats don’t trust President Donald Trump due to their opposition to the war, and the President isn’t getting what he wants out of talks.
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Should've started worrying when they moved away from "fundamental support" for Israel - I don't like it, but we (Jews) ARE your canaries in a coal mine.
[Breitbart] Failed Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is launching a political committee aimed at rural communities despite massive fraud scandals in his home state and his recent pledge to stand with Minnesota’s Somali community.
Walz announced on Monday:
Today, we’re launching Small Town PAC.
We’re going to show up in small towns, organize in places too many people have given up on, and build power with the folks who call these places home.
If Democrats want to win in more places, we’ve got to start showing up in more places.
Walz told Politico Playbook, “Republicans like JD Vance like to portray their small-town neighbors as petty, resentful, and small-minded. I disagree. I think the problem facing small towns are Republicans like JD Vance.” Sounds like projection
Walz added that he plans “to find some teachers, some nurses, some laborers, vets, and young people in small towns across the country who can represent their communities better than Silicon Valley can.”
Vance’s office responded, “The problem facing many small towns in Minnesota is that Tim Walz gives their money to fraudulent daycares,” a Vance spokesperson said in a statement.
The exchange comes after the 2024 campaign, when Walz and Vance faced off as their parties’ vice presidential nominees.
Polling before the vice presidential debate found Vance was more trusted than Walz on immigration, national security, the economy, inflation, and crime. A September 2024 Senate Opportunity Fund poll found Vance held advantages ranging from three to six points on those issues.
After the October 2024 vice presidential debate, both CBS News and CNN polls found that viewers believed Vance won, though by narrow margins.
A year after taking office, President Donald Trump tapped JD Vance to lead the “war on fraud,” placing him at the center of the administration’s scrutiny of Minnesota welfare and childcare programs. Vance later pointed to allegations involving empty daycare centers and the “Quality Learing Center,” a facility highlighted after citizen journalist Nick Shirley released video showing locations that appeared to have no children despite receiving government funds.
In January, Vance said Walz should resign, saying he either “knew about the fraud in Minneapolis” or “looked the other way.”
March’s House Oversight Committee report concluded that Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison were aware for years of widespread fraud in Minnesota’s federally funded welfare programs, lied about their knowledge of the fraud, and retaliated against whistleblowers instead of stopping the schemes.
“Testimony obtained by the Committee reveals that Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were aware of widespread fraud in social service programs, lied about their knowledge of the fraud, and retaliated against employees who dared to raise concerns,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said.
The committee’s investigation focused in part on the Feeding Our Future case. The Justice Department first charged 47 people in 2021 in the scheme, which then-Attorney General Merrick Garland described as “the largest pandemic-era fraud scheme ever identified.”
Federal prosecutors alleged that dozens of defendants tied to Minnesota’s Somali community diverted money from child nutrition programs.
At a March 28 “No Kings” protest in Minneapolis, Walz told the crowd that his administration would “never leave the side” of Somali Minnesotans.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vice President JD Vance will travel to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran as a ceasefire deal is set to expire.
According to Axios, Vance was expected to depart for Islamabad by Tuesday morning to discuss a potential deal to end the war.
The decision to send Vance was made after Washington spent Monday waiting to hear whether Tehran would send a negotiating team to Pakistan, the outlet reported.
In the past, US negotiators have sat down for discussions with both Iranian officials and Pakistani intermediaries.
A source told Axios that Iran was stalling while under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards to hold firm and not accept talks without a guarantee to end the US blockade.
President Trump has said it is 'highly unlikely' a ceasefire will be extended with Iran, warning that 'lots of bombs start going off' if Tehran does not agree to a deal.
'I’m not going to be rushed into making a bad deal. We’ve got all the time in the world,' the US President said in a phone interview with Bloomberg News.
The current two-week long ceasefire in place will expire on 'Wednesday evening Washington time' but Iran have not committed to attending further talks set to be held in Islamabad this week.
The president also said that the Strait of Hormuz would continue to be blockaded until the US and Iran reach an agreement on the war.
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No one knew who this POS was until 2 years ago. I'm from a small southern rural community, he would not survive a week. Plenty of old wells out in the sticks.
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Oh please send your entitled, blue haired, holier than thou idiots to these small towns. Hopefully no one will serve them or allow them a place to stay. At worst the liberal idiots get their asses beat and run out of town.
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Towns like East Palestine, Asheville and Springfield?
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Had some butterdik stop by the store a couple weeks back, something something organizing for small towns, wanted me to take a survey, said no and have a good day, left without a goodbye. Very rude. Wonder if they are related?
[Breitbart] Investment bribe returns aren't returning value Higher Ground, the dumb production company founded by Barry and Michelle Obama in 2018, is parting ways with Netflix.
After eight years under a lucrative first-look deal, Higher Ground and Netflix will not renew it when the deal expires at the end of 2026.
Over the weekend, the failed former president appeared to want to get in front of the news and spin it in a positive way.
“We were in partnership with Netflix,” Barry said. “We’re in a process now of transitioning to a more independent [future] where we can work with a bunch of different studios.”
The deal initially came together by way of Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, an Obama fanboy who raised money (some $600,000) for the president. Oh, and between 2009 and 2011, Sarandos’ wife, Nicole Avant, served as Obama’s ambassador to the Bahamas.
This lucrative deal, which some reports valued at $50 million for the Obamas, came just two months after Obama’s close pal and United Nations ambassador Susan Rice was added to the Netflix board of directors.
So what did Netflix get out of its deal with the Obamas, other than all the political goodies that come with this kind of insider status?
Well, from where I sit… not a whole lot. There were three feature films. About ten streaming series no one has heard of. A half dozen documentaries. Because they are the Obamas, this content received all kinds of attention from the idiots who hand out awards, including a Best Documentary Oscar win. What I don’t see is a single iconic title.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[TheFederalist] Breadcrumbs dropped last month by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, based on whistleblower reporting suggest FBI Special Agent 
